Email asks you to confirm/update/verify your account data at e-gold by visiting the given link. You will be taken to a spoof website where your details will be captured for the phishers.

e-gold never send their users emails requesting personal details in this way.

The REAL URL of the spoof website looks nothing like the actual e-gold URL.

"We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your e-gold
account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.
"

Dear e-gold customer,

We recently reviewed your account, and suspect that your e-gold
account may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party.

Protecting the security of your account and of the e-gold network
is our primary concern. Therefore, as a preventative measure, we
have temporarily limited access to sensitive account features.

To restore your account access, please take the following steps to
ensure that your account has not been compromised:

1. Login to your e-gold account. In case you are not enrolled yet,
you will have to fill in the required information, including your
current e-gold e-mail and it's password.

2. Review your recent account history for any unauthorized
withdrawals or deposits, and check your account profile to make
sure no changes have been made. If any unauthorized activity has
taken place your account, report to e-gold staff immediately.

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If you have received the email below, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content, such as a different subject or return address, or with the fake webpage(s) hosted on a different webserver.

We aim to report every variant of the scams we receive, so even if it appears that a scam you receive has already been reported, please submit it to us anyway.